Just wanted to let you all know we had a great day down there battling. Had a lot of fun running the quarter pounder, and I was quite pleased that nothing broke or malfunctioned the whole day. Made for a wonderful experience. The first scenario was fun and action packed. Had a lot of targets to shoot at. Frank must have thought my soldiers were a good way to get some much needed target practice in, taking me out single handedly once, and contributed to my death a couple of other times. I also made some long range hits. Paul was taking the Patton down into the lower field for some reason, and he was showing a nice broadside. Since there wasn't much going on in the compound, I swung the quarter pounder around estimated the elevation and fired a shot. As I followed the round down range, it looked like it was going to be close. Believe it or not, that first round hit, leaving a nice big yellow spot on the side of the Patton's turret. Made me smile.
The last scenario was the best in my opinion. So many tanks coming so close...Mmmmm..just like sheep to the slaughter. The position I was in was perfect, I had a great view of the compound, and some really good shots up through the trees. The one pine tree right next to me was a tank killer. None of the other tankers knew it at first, but the bottom branches didn't come all the way down to the ground like most of the other trees, they sat about 8-10 inches above the ground. So, a tanker comes along with his tank and stops right at this tree, and then walks ahead to see if it's safe to charge through or not. Most of them saw me lining up my gun on the side of their tank, wondering what I was doing. Well they knew what I was doing when I started to call out, "1,2,3, hits". I don't think I killed anybody single handedly that way, but did get quite a few hits on them. I didn't get very many hits on the Cromwell, which I had vowed to do before I left home. I thought it would be fun to shoot Steve's tank with his own gun. I didn't get very many hits mostly because Steve is a very tricky driver. I started to notice that he would sit right outside the cones, and wait for me to start refilling a magazine before charging across the field to the compound. I normally couldn't get the magazine filled and back on the gun in time to get a shot. After this happened a couple of times, I decided to beat Steve at his own game. I made sure I had a full magazine, then I pointed the gun slightly toward where Steve was waiting. I then went over and started to fill up the spare magazines that I had there. Sure enough, here comes Steve, only this time I was ready. As the Cromwell started to charge across the field, I grabbed the radio and started to track and fire. Steve must have realized that this run wasn't the same as the other ones, because instead of proceeding to the compound like planned, he drove right up in front of my gun. To get me guessing as to which way he would go, he would drive up along the right/left side of the cannon, and then backup before I could get a shot at him. After a couple rounds of this, he turned and charged for the compound. Unfortunately, my gun couldn't traverse fast enough to keep up with his tank at close range, and I couldn't get any hits on him. Steve continued to do this for the rest of the game. Another time, Steve must have misjudged the speed of his tank, because the Cromwell didn't stop soon enough, and ran into the splinter shield, and at the same time fired a couple of rounds into it. I thought for sure this would have broken the shield off its mount (it was only glued on), but it stayed on. Frank said in the battle report that stealing hostages has an easy way to fortune. You're right. Both my brothers and I found the it was easier to shoot the tanks when they were waiting to get a hostage, than to shoot them when the were running away at full speed with a hostage. I wanted to thank Will for the hats, we've worn them constantly since the battle. Thanks also to John for filling my Co2 tanks for me all through the day. I also wanted to say thanks to everybody that was there for a great day of battling. Caleb -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
